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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Tue, Jul 24 2007 2:00PM
Subject: PDF Accidentally Saving As MHT
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Hi everyone,
I ran into an interesting problem recently on a WebCT site. Using
Jaws, but I don't think that played a role. This was something that a
student showed me very quickly, & I haven't had the chance to do more testing.
The behavior was this: IE7 wanted to save an in-browser pdf as a .mht
file. Re-opening the .mht in IE produced garbage (I didn't think at
the time to change the file extension back to pdf to see what would happen).
I'm wondering what triggered the .mht saveAs. Perhaps the cursor was
outside the displayed file's window. There was a "Back to Parent
Document" button, so I'm suspecting the course author (or the WebCT
system) created a wrapper for the PDF. Or is this related to how IE
displays some PDF's?
Has anyone encountered this saving-as-MHT phenomenon anywhere, but
esp. in a courseware environment?
Thanks for any leads,
Patrick
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Patrick J. Burke
Coordinator
UCLA Disabilities &
Computing Program
Phone: 310 206-6004
E-mail: burke <at> ucla. edu
From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Wed, Jul 25 2007 2:30AM
Subject: Re: PDF Accidentally Saving As MHT
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You get the mht if you go to the second option on the drop down list
of file types: "Web Archive, single file"
My gut feeling would be that it's the mht that's causing the problem.
I've tried to recreate it, but can't - initially because Adobe doesn't
like IE at the moment - not sure why, but as I prefer Firefox, I'm not
unduly worried, and then when I tried to save an html page in WebCT
as .mht, it told me it couldn't.
Sorry not to have been more help.
Emma
On 24/07/07, Patrick Burke < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I ran into an interesting problem recently on a WebCT site. Using
> Jaws, but I don't think that played a role. This was something that a
> student showed me very quickly, & I haven't had the chance to do more testing.
>
> The behavior was this: IE7 wanted to save an in-browser pdf as a .mht
> file. Re-opening the .mht in IE produced garbage (I didn't think at
> the time to change the file extension back to pdf to see what would happen).
>
> I'm wondering what triggered the .mht saveAs. Perhaps the cursor was
> outside the displayed file's window. There was a "Back to Parent
> Document" button, so I'm suspecting the course author (or the WebCT
> system) created a wrapper for the PDF. Or is this related to how IE
> displays some PDF's?
>
> Has anyone encountered this saving-as-MHT phenomenon anywhere, but
> esp. in a courseware environment?
>
> Thanks for any leads,
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
>
> --
> Patrick J. Burke
>
> Coordinator
> UCLA Disabilities &
> Computing Program
>
> Phone: 310 206-6004
> E-mail: burke <at> ucla. edu
>
>